In:The Syntax of Information-Structural Agreement
Johannes Mursell
[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today 268] 2021
► pp. 117–150
Chapter 5Subject marking in Tagalog
Published online: 22 September 2021
https://doi.org/10.1075/la.268.c5
https://doi.org/10.1075/la.268.c5
Article outline
- 5.1Introduction
- 5.2Tagalog background
- 5.3Previous accounts
- 5.3.1Case-based accounts
- 5.3.2Topic and focus
- 5.3.3Structural accounts
- Subjects as complements in Malagasy
- Rackowski (2002) and movement to the vP-edge
- Specificity does not equal ang-marking
- 5.4Analysis
- 5.4.1Ang-phrase as given
- 5.4.2Subject agreement as determined by Givenness
- 5.5Predictions and consequences
- 5.6Conclusion
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